The economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China hold plenty of potential for U.S. companies. As bank robber and aphorism icon Willie Sutton might have said, "I'm doing business in the BRIC countries because that's where the money is." But would he be entirely correct? The acronym stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. For the last decade, these countries have been at the heart of growth strategies for many multinational companies and are still high on analysts' lists for the next decade. They are also a focus of U.S. government export promotion. No wonder. For starters, BRICs contain 40 percent of the world's population.
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